• 文献标题:   Graphene Oxides Dispersing and Hosting Graphene Sheets for Unique Nanocomposite Materials
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   TIAN LL, ANILKUMAR P, CAO L, KONG CY, MEZIANI MJ, QIAN HJ, VECA LM, THORNE TJ, TACKETT KN, EDWARDS T, SUN YP
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, graphene oxide, nanocomposite, thermal diffusivity, polymeric film
  • 出版物名称:   ACS NANO
  • ISSN:   1936-0851 EI 1936-086X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Clemson Univ
  • 被引频次:   66
  • DOI:   10.1021/nn200162z
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

Graphene oxides (GOs), beyond their widely reported use as precursors for single layer graphene sheets, are in fact excellent materials themselves (polymers in two-dimension, polyelectrolyte-like, aqueous solubility and blocompatibility, etc.). In this reported work we used aqueous GOs to effectively disperse few-layer graphene sheets (GNs) in suspension for facile wet-processing into nanocomposites of GNs embedded in GOs (as the polymeric matrix). The resulting lightweight and plastic-like nanocomposite materials remained mechanically flexible even at high loadings of GNs, and they were found to be highly efficient In thermal transport, with the experimentally determined thermal diffusivity competitive to those typically observed only in well-known thermally conductive metals such as aluminum and copper. As demonstrated, GOs apparently represent a unique class of two-dimensional polymeric materials for potentially "all-carbon" nanocomposites, among others, which may find technological applications independent of those widely proclaimed for graphene sheets.